The printer with its CO2 laser allows to use a wide range of professional thermoplastic powder, such as PA 12, PA 11 and TPU, which give specific properties to the realized objects. To handle particular requests, it is also possible to use charged powders which contain particles of other materials such as glass, carbon or aluminum, giving different physical, mechanical and visual properties to the final objects.
SnowWhite has the aim to bring the advantages of the sintering process to the small and medium business and to technical laboratories not only in an economic, easy and efficient way, but also keeping a professional and high quality result.
It is a printer which allows the user to “print in a click” because after a material is profiled, the printing process is completely automatic and the results are fully reproducible.
Compared to other printers based on the same technology, it’s faster in terms of setup and preparation of a job. It means that the time from the loading of the powder to the creation of the first layer can be as low as 30 minutes.
The printer medium consumption is less then 1,5 Watt/h and all the left-over powder can be used again in the next printing process. The printer requires only 300 ml of powder to start working and the building speed can reach 10 mm/h.
Sharebot SnowWhite is compatible with different powders like PA12, PA11, TPU and other charged powders. Our researchers tested many materials to be able to find the right setting to print them.
TPU Printing parameters in research papers
TPU powder by Mophene3D CT90A (Nanjing, China)
Laser: Power 40% – Speed 40,000 pps
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/15/22/4404
TPU powder by Mophene3D CT90A (Nanjing, China)
Plate temperature: 85°C
Laser: Power 40% – Speed 40,000 pps
Layer: 100um – Hatching: 200um
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/12/8/1841
TPU Luvosint TPU X92A-2 WT (Lehmann & Voss & Co. KG, Germany)
Plate temperature: 91°C
Laser: Power 34% – Speed 32,000 pps
https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adem.202100777
Ultrasint TPU 88A by BASF SE
Plate temperature: 88°C
Laser: Power 8.4W – Speed 2.7 m/s
Layer: 100um
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10053309/#app1-polymers-15-01552
